Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 92
You cannot look for him to be with you in this matter, that he should see his children die before his eyes."
Who acts: You, Duke, children · What happens: not look, be, see, die · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Duke, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 you | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 you | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 you | cop |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 matter | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 look | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 die | nsubj |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | ccomp |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 die | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | can | You | in this matter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in matter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Duke | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | should | Duke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | die | present | Duke's children | before Duke's eyes | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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